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Shortlist legal embedding models with real benchmark data.

Convert MLEB benchmark results into a practical shortlist for retrieval and legal-research workflows.

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MLEB Model Shortlist Builder

Translate benchmark results into a practical shortlist for legal retrieval stacks. Filter by open-source policy, legal focus, speed profile, and context window.

Matched models: 12
Shortlist output
Top 12 models
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Jina Embeddings v5 Text Small
Jina • Open-source
Rank 0.7517
Avg score: 0.7103
Case law: 0.6025
Regulation: 0.8566
Contracts: 0.7797
Avg time: 57.49s
Context: 32768
Dims: 1024
Jina Embeddings v4
Jina • Open-source
Rank 0.7479
Avg score: 0.7068
Case law: 0.5952
Regulation: 0.8726
Contracts: 0.7644
Avg time: 79.75s
Context: 32768
Dims: 2048
Qwen3 Embedding 4B
Qwen • Open-source
Rank 0.7429
Avg score: 0.7477
Case law: 0.6370
Regulation: 0.8749
Contracts: 0.8419
Avg time: 1081.57s
Context: 32000
Dims: 2560
Qwen3 Embedding 0.6B
Qwen • Open-source
Rank 0.7429
Avg score: 0.6990
Case law: 0.5948
Regulation: 0.8401
Contracts: 0.7661
Avg time: 36.28s
Context: 32000
Dims: 1024
Jina Embeddings v5 Text Nano
Jina • Open-source
Rank 0.7378
Avg score: 0.6915
Case law: 0.5897
Regulation: 0.8343
Contracts: 0.7524
Avg time: 5.68s
Context: 32768
Dims: 768
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.0
Snowflake • Open-source
Rank 0.7147
Avg score: 0.6653
Case law: 0.5528
Regulation: 0.7917
Contracts: 0.7641
Avg time: 27.23s
Context: 8192
Dims: 1024
Free Law ModernBERT Base
Free Law • Open-source
Rank 0.7139
Avg score: 0.6643
Case law: 0.5528
Regulation: 0.8102
Contracts: 0.7414
Avg time: 25.43s
Context: 8192
Dims: 768
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.0
Snowflake • Open-source
Rank 0.7046
Avg score: 0.6528
Case law: 0.5265
Regulation: 0.8246
Contracts: 0.7336
Avg time: 13.80s
Context: 8192
Dims: 768
Granite Embedding English R2
IBM • Open-source
Rank 0.7007
Avg score: 0.6484
Case law: 0.5328
Regulation: 0.8387
Contracts: 0.6894
Avg time: 17.70s
Context: 8192
Dims: 768
BGE M3
BAAI • Open-source
Rank 0.6726
Avg score: 0.6151
Case law: 0.4663
Regulation: 0.7975
Contracts: 0.7304
Avg time: 12.13s
Context: 8192
Dims: 1024
Rank 0.6581
Avg score: 0.5980
Case law: 0.4671
Regulation: 0.8137
Contracts: 0.6443
Avg time: 12.70s
Context: 8192
Dims: 384
Qwen3 Embedding 8B
Qwen • Open-source
Rank 0.6449
Avg score: 0.7588
Case law: 0.6582
Regulation: 0.8899
Contracts: 0.8288
Avg time: 3790.04s
Context: 32000
Dims: 4096
Use this as a starting shortlist, then run your own eval set for jurisdiction-specific edge cases before production rollout.